Headlines

Jewelry Store Employee Leaves $1 Million Worth of Jewels on Train, Later Locates in Lost-and-Found

Published

8 years ago

August 19, 2016

She declined to disclose her identity to the press. Probably wise.

A bad day for a New York jewelry store employee got better after authorities recovered the bag containing $1 million in jewels that she left on a commuter train, the New York Post reports. According to the article, the diamond district employee, who asked not to be named, left a bag containing watches, necklaces and chains on a Metro-North train. She realized her mistake when she got to the office and rushed back to Grand Central Station, where transit police eventually brought the bag to lost and found. In the bag were individual pieces costing as much as $240,000. She didn’t tell her boss what she’d done.

Looking for a Seamless Sale? Call Wilkerson

After almost 60 years in business, Breakiron Jewelers in Erie, Pennsylvania, was closing its doors. And the store’s owner, Linda Breakiron, was ready for it. She had run the store as its sole owner since the beginning of the millennium and was looking forward to a change. Of course, she called Wilkerson. Breakiron talked to other jewelers who had used Wilkerson and was satisfied with their response. “They always had positive feedback,” she recalls. With the sales, marketing and even additional inventory that Wilkerson provided, Breakiron insists she could never have accomplished her going-out-of-business sale without Wilkerson’s help. She’s now ready for the journey ahead, but looking back, she’d be sure to recommend Wilkerson. “They just made the whole process very seamless.”